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>> David Hiltz writes:

 David>    How can I indicate which window manager I want to use
 David>    (olwm/olvwm) from the command line?  I didn't see anything in
 David>    the openwin script file.  Can I do it through an environment
 David>    variable?  If so, what is it called and what is the syntax
 David>    for it?  I'm running OpenWindows on a Sun/SS2 4.1.3.

By default, olwm is started by the OpenWindows startup script
$OPENWINHOME/lib/Xinitrc

This file is *only* run if you don't have your own ~/.xinitrc OR you
haven't specified an alternate file using the XINITRC environment
variable.

To fix your problem, you can copy this file into your own ~/.xinitrc and
modify it to run olwm/olvwm/twm or whatever. It's a shell script so use
you imagination ;-)

For example, here's an excerpt from my .xinitrc:

#
# Window Manager.
#
if [ "$OPENWINHOME" = "" ]
then
    twm&
else
    olvwm&
#   /home/intrinsics/nayeem/motif/usr/bin/X11/mwm&
fi

--
	--- John